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Doc. 313.] 919
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
1740. (54.) De Ossibus Cranii, deque Ossificatione, et de
Dura Matre (On the Bones of the Skull and Ossification,
and the Dura Mater), in MS. , 49 pages, folio.
On the cover of Codex 88, Swedenborg lays down the following
plan for the prosecution of his investigations into the nature of the
body and the soul:
"
Homo proponit, Deus disponit.
(Man proposes, God disposes.)
1740. The brain.
1741. The muscles, glands, and nerves.
1742. The eye, ear, tongue, windpipe, and lungs.
1743. The remaining members or viscera of the body.
1744. The members devoted to generation.
1745. The causes of diseases.
1746. The passions and affections of the sensual mind (animus),
and the mind proper (mens).
1747. The city of God (Civitas Dei)."
In agreement with this plan Swedenborg, in the beginning
1740, after finishing the MS. of the Economia Regni Animalis, began
to re-examine his Transactions on the Brain (no. 48 of the present
Document) , which he had written between 1735 and 1738; but
instead of proceeding according to the synthetical method , as he
had done in that work, he now approached his subject according
to the analytical method from without. We accordingly find him
engaged during the whole of January, 1740 , in investigating the
structure of the bones of the skull, and the nature of the dura mater.
The results of these investigations, together with a daily record of
his work, and constant references to his "Transactions on the Brain,"
constitute the work which we are now considering.
It consists of 150 numbered paragraphs, of which 24 on the
bones of the skull are missing. The substance of these missing
numbers seems , however, to have been embodied by the author in
chapter 2 of Codex 55 (no. 56 of the present Document), which
treats likewise of the bones of the skull in general.
We must regard as a continuation of the present work the
chapter on the sinuses of the dura mater, by which it is succeeded
on leaves 25 and 26 of the original MS. , although the numbered
paragraphs are not continued in it ; it contains constant references to
Codex 65 (no. 48 of the present Document).
For further particulars, see Document 310, Codex 57, nos. 2
to 7.
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